FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WYSDM FOR BACKUPS ®, FEATURING INDUSTRY-FIRST PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS, NOW MANAGES MORE THAN 600 TERABYTES
FOR DOZENS OF CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE

Emerging as the Data Protection Management Leader, the Company
Formerly Known as SysDM Gains Momentum on Customer and Partner Fronts

NEW YORK, NY — Aug 30, 2005— WysDM Software, Inc. (formerly SysDM, Inc.), a leading provider of innovative data protection management (DPM) solutions, today formally announced the company’s name change as well as major milestone achievements with customers and partners. The new name, WysDM, reflects the company’s core value proposition: offering customers wisdom about their data protection environments. WysDM has developed a strong market foothold over the past 24 months, building a customer base that now uses the WysDM for Backups ™ solution to protect more than 600 terabytes of backups each week in enterprise sites around the world. Founded by a group of storage and financial services domain experts, WysDM is the industry’s first and only DPM supplier to offer detailed, custom analysis of the entire data protection environment, providing the most comprehensive insight into what processes or problems have occurred in the backup environment, what is currently transpiring during a backup, and what will likely occur if the environment remains unchanged. past, present and future data protection reliability , performance and compliance.

WysDM for Backups combines fine-grained backup reporting data coupled with business rules, such as service level agreements, internal and external regulatory requirements and chargeback policies. As a result, IT administrators now have the intelligence to manage their backup environment and reduce exposure with a broad range of reports and predictive analysis analysi s that covers s everything from application exposure to successful but non-compliant backups. WysDM for Backups represents a huge advance over customers’ simplistic legacy reporting software and current solutions found in the market today.

“DPM represents a white-hot opportunity,” said Brad O’Neill, senior analyst and consultant, Taneja Group. “Enterprises recognize that it is no longer sufficient to merely perform backups on data — they must have some assurance that the data will be available should a recovery process be necessary. At a basic level, WysDM takes the guesswork out of backups; but with its unique, comprehensive product portfolio, WysDM definitely has a leg up in the DPM market and is well positioned to take advantage of this burgeoning market opportunity.”

“The name of the game is execution, and we’re continuing to establish ourselves as a dominant force to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive data protection management system,” said Alan Atkinson, president and CEO of WysDM. “Our solid partnerships and dedication to customer quality and satisfaction underscore our commitment to architect the most valued set of backup reporting and analysis solutions, helping to avert costly backup and compliance issues.”

WysDM for Backups implements WysDM’s patent-pending Cross-Domain Correlation™ technology. This innovative, agent-less technology analyzes information collected from network, storage, systems, and application domains to provide IT teams with real-time predictive backup analysis that provides insight in to past, present and future data protection reliability, performance and compliance.

The Cross-Domain Correlation functionality enables systems administrators to pinpoint the true cause of infrastructure failures and performance bottlenecks before they impact the business. Because WysDM for Backups actively collects data, rather than solely reacting to events, it is able to maintain a historical data mine that the software can use to predict and interpret trends.

WysDM for Backups installs in hours, and the application integrates with existing IT tools via XML APIs. WysDM for Backups runs under Solaris, Linux, and Windows.

WysDM, the WysDM logo, WysDM for Backups and Cross-Domain Correlation s are trademarks of WysDM Software, Inc.